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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29

PETROLEUM V. NASBY.-D. r.
Locke. Petroleum V. Nasty, editor
Toledo "Blade," writes: II had on a
ferefinger of my right hand one of those
pleasant pets, "a run-round.' The
finger became iuflamed to a degree
unbearable and swollen to nearly twice
its natural size. A friend gave me
HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE, and in
twenty minutes the pain had so much
subsidized as to give me fair nights
rest, which l had not had before for a
week. The Inflammation left the finger
in day / consider it most valuable
article
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29

GRIGGS' GLYCERINE SALVE.
Try this Wonder Healer.
tSss-fRIcE, 20 CENTS. "a UwARRAETED. q.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29

A widow living alone in suburb of
Boston is dreadfully afraid of tramps.
A neighbor has large st. Bernard
dog, and when he sees tramp in the
neighborhood he says to the dog:
Jack, 60 over to Mrs. III. 5 and sit on
the piazza until the tramp gets by. !"
The dog instantly goes, and after he
has seen the tramp safely along the
road he comes home. This same dog
always insists upon accompanying the
widow home when she calls upon his
masters family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29

NOTHING LIKE IT.-No medicine
has ever been known so effectual in
the cure of all those diseases arising
from an impure condition of the blood
as Scovill's Sarsaparilla. or blood and
liver Syrup, for the cure of Scrofula,
White Swelhngs, Rheumatism, Pim-
Piles, Blotches, Erupiions. Venereal
Sores and Diseases, Consumption,
Groitre. Boils. Cancers, and all kim
dred diseases. No better means of Sc
curing beautiful complexion can be
obtained than by using SCOvILL'S
BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, which
eleanses the blood and gives beauty to
the skin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29

One-Agent (Merchant only) wanted in every
town for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29

Harriet Beecher Stowe is failing
rapidly. The brilliant intellect which
conceived the Immortal tale of ''Uncle
Toms Cabin is perceptibly shattered.
The death OF Prof. Stowe has added
years TO the appearance of his lonely
wife, and she has lost entirely her
Vi cor aas! enthusiasm. In her modest
iittis l,onse in Hartford she awaits list
l''s.,f TIE end Of her busy life. Sadly
ss,si 4 few days ago to friend,
''s.a, ! wr.te no more. / have done,
i.ave done, | have done"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29
We vcuSoN

is warranted, is because it is the best
Blood Preparation known. 1t will posi-
lively sHre all Bloed Diseases, purises the
whole system, and thoroughly builds up the
constitution. Remember, we guarantee it
For Sale BY A. II. Barber.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29
Ely's
Cream Balm

Cleanses tho Ma
sal Passages, al
lays Pain and
Inhamm alton
Heals the Sores
Restores the SEN
ses of taste and
smell.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Farm Notes.

TUBERCULOSIS is more dangerous
in itself, probably, than contagious
pleuro-pneumonia. 1t may also be
found more difficult to suppress than
that, and having so interesting a rela-
ton to the general health of the peo-
pie, it demands more active and effect
i've legislative action to keep it under
control.-American Veterinary Rerie,C.
IT is mistake not to keep bull
until his progeny have been tested.
Valuable animals have thus been lost
Older sires get more vigorous offspring.
There are too many young and underfed
sires. Most sires are selected for their
style and beauty. This is poor plan
with cattle designed for the dairy, and
this fancy notion should give way to
signs of usefulness.-Home and Farm.
A CHICAGO man paid $50, a few
weeks ago, for a new and improved in
cubator. He placed therein S25 worth
of high-priced eggs and hired boy to
attend it at further expense of $25.
The time having fully expired, he
went recently to inspect the incu-
bator and see how many of the eggs
had Matched. The only living thing he
found was large blue-bottle fly, which
he caught and put in a bottle. He ex-
hibits this insect to inquiring friends as
the only 5000 fly in the United States.-
Chicago Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Wood Ashes.

Dry, clean wood ashes are worth more
than twenty-five cents bushel to any
farmer who wants manure. You can
scarcely use them on any crop without
very sensible results. A handful thrown
around the complaints at the first hoe
ing will greatly increase their growth
and give them a highly dark-green
color; scattered in the hill before the
potato is covered, or about the hill just
before hoeing, will have similar re-
suits; sown broadcast on the moving
fields, at the rate of as small an amount
as five bushels to the acre, will greatly
increase the growth and color of the
crop. Besides this, their beneficial re-
suits will continue for several years in
succession. Strewed over young cab
bage-plants, squashes, melons, or any
of the garden vegetables-such as
tomatoes, beets, onions, turnips or car
ROSEWOOD ashes not only tend to dis
turb the insects that infest the plants,
but have decided influence on their
growth and quality. All the ashes
made ON the farm should be collected
with care, kept dry and applied to the
crops. Nothing could be better for the
young orchard. Spreading ashes broad
cast over the surface would be more
useful than any other kind of manure.
The roots will find it if spread. 1t is
better to use moderate quantity an
nually than to apply large amount at
one time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Are Big Turkeys Profitable ?

am aware that the Bronze turkey is
recommended on account of its being
larger than the common herd, but are
these larger ones more profitable to the
feeders of them? viii they take on
more flesh in a given time with the
same amount of feed? We do know
that ii requires care and plenty of feed
to fatten young "Toms ~ for Thanks
giving, and even at Christmas we see
more habitat than fat ones, and the
extra large Toms that we see at New
Years are generally those that have
seen several winters. Would it not
prove more profitable to improve the
common herd and have them well
fattened, even sooner than Thanks
giving, when they sell for good price,
thus saving feed and the risk of losing
them?-C. W. j., IN Farm and Home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
The English Sparrow.

The Michigan legislature has made
law giving a reward of one cent for
each sparrow killed in that state, the
expense to be made a county charge
and payable by village or town clerks.
This will probably thin out what has
become in many localities great nui-
sance. The sparrows in Northern States
live chiefly in cities and villages, where
they can find shelter, and are especially
destructive to grain and fruit near the
suburbs. In spring they eat fruit-buds
when nothing else offers, and thus do
greater damage than at any other sea-
son. With a reward of one cent for
each one killed profitable business
might be done in destroying them, and
the experiment in Michigan might well
be repeated elsewhere. The sparrow
breeds rapidly, and one of its worst Of
fences consists in driving away the ma
tive birds, much more valuable than it.
elf,-CuItirdtOr
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
RenOvating Pastures.

f. II. Appleton of Peabody, Mass,
speaks of sheep as an undoubted means
of renovating worn-out and almost I'M
used pastures where nutritious grasses
have been supplanted by bushes, brars
and MOSES. Sheep cannot be expected
to feed on old bushes or old briars, but
all such should be moved down at the
start; nor can they be expected to
thrive in old, rundown pastures with
out receiving some good feed each dav
from their owner. Mr.. Appleton says
81 bought lot of cotton-seed meal,
feeding the same to my sheep every
morning and night. They liked it, and
the meal agreed with them uncommonly
well. fed about pint to each sheep
at feeding. The result was they
cleaned out absolutely every briar,
every sumach-bush and many other
shrubs, but not the huckleberry bushes.
They covered the pasture with rich
manure, showing in its effects the su-
perior advantages in feeding cotton
seed meal. "-Erchdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
In the West.

Before leaving New England for a
home in a newly-settled country there is
much to be considered. The letters
from Dakota remind me of family
once knew who had sad experience
which may be of interest to some read
ers. The family belonged to that nu-
merous class of farmers who, by econ
omy and hard work, manage to bring
up family respectfully and keep
pretty clear of debt, but not much more.
They sold small farm and went to
Minnesota to locate. Letters written
home were full of glowing descriptions
of grand sunsets, level prairies and pro-
ductive soil. There were no rocks or
hills for many miles, and the change,
of course, was pleasing. No more
digging out of stones for him and
no long, hot days in the hay
field, for the cattle could live out all
winter. He could ride behind a span
or two of horses to pillow, and other
field work was done in the same man
ner. The small house of two rooms
was disappointment, but many had
but one room, and there would be but
little housework to do. So the first year
went by and the wife and mother of
four children grew old and faded. She
missed her shady chamber, her cool
buttery and great many things she
never spoke of. She was obliged to do
much of her work outside the house on
account of the heat of the cook-stove.
When the house cast shadow large
enough to cover her, in the early morn
ing, she used to do the washing and
churning on the shady side of it. No
riding behind horses to do her work
and no conveniences to do it with. The
second season was very hot and dry,
and sickness prevailed. The eldest
child, promising girl of ten years, was
taken sick with dysentery. There was
no cool chamber for her, and no
mothers room," that haven of refuge
for sick children, and so she had to lie
in the heat, while the sun beat fiercely
upon the little house, with no tree to
shelter it. In her delirium she called
and begged continually for water
"Just one good drink of cold water from
the well; why do they not give it to me?'
How that woman wept as she told mt
of it. There was no water to be had
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
PrOft-Sharing.

The great ap-manufacturing firm
of Proctor & Gamble of Cincinnati
have entered into an agreement with
their employees by which the latter are
to share in the profits of the business
in addition to their wages. This action
was voluntary on the part of the firm
and without solicitation on the part of
the employees. The Erening Post of
that city refers to the new departure as
follows:
The firm of Proctor x Gamble, their en-
ployes, the city of Cincinnati and the toll
ers of the whole world are to be congratu-
lated upon the Inauguration by the firm
above mentioned of practicable and mu-
tually beneficial scheme of profit-sharing,
which includes all the small army of en-
ployes of this great soap-making firm.
Proctor & Gamble are to be congratulated
because they have bound their employees to
their interest; because they have sweet
ened their own residue of profit by the con-
seriousness that they receive it into I'M
envied possession; because they have the
consciousness that they are not only helping
to clean up the world of mankind, but also
contributing to the cheerful and hopeful So
luton of the great problem of profit-distri-
button; and because every lover of his race,
as he uses a cake of Ivory soap, will give an
approving thought to the firm which has
Joined hands with its employees in the profit
of its production.
The employees are to be congratulated be-
cause, with no responsibility for the losses
of the enterprise and no capital at stake.
they will first surely get their wages and
will thereafter get a suitable share in the
profits of the undertaking.
The city of Cincinnati is to be congratu-
lated because it is to have an opportunity to
witness the practical operation and results
of prott-sharing on very large scale be-
cause the example, right at home, is likely
TO be followed by many, if not most, other
industrial establishments of the city, and
because it augurs the introduction of a
happier feeling on the part of the manual
laborers of the city, whose protection and
comfort should be the city's first care.
The toilers of the whole world are to be
| congratulated because this example shows
! that the old heather doctrine of " let alone"
is being demolished and that an era of
mutually and fair-dealing is at hand.
| II is long since the papers of Cincinnati
have been able to chronicle so pleasant an
! item of local news. 1t is better to share
profits as we go along than to hoard them
| till we die, and then bequeath them to the
public; and infinitely better than to trans
init them unearned to our family descend
ants.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Chopped Feed for Work Horses.

There can be no doubt of the superior
ity of chopped feed over whole grain
for feeding warehouses. 1t is true that
a horse in the prime of life and health,
and whose teeth are good, will reduce
whole grain more completely with
natures grinders than will mill, and
that grain, when ground, does not re-
quire so much mastication, unless
mixed with cut hay or straw, as when
fed whole, nor become so thoroughly
insalivated during the process of masti-
cation yet when horse is allowed to
become very hungry and then fed on
whole grain he will eat so voraciously
as not to take time to masticate or in
salivate his food, and the probable re-
suit is an attack of collie, which often
proves fatal. 1t is well-known fact
among Psychologists that unless the
mouthful of provender be well sat
urated with saliva before entering the
stomach the gastric juices of the latter
refuse to act chemically upon it, and
therefore the first stages of digestion
are interfered with and disease invited.
The horse possesses small stomach
in comparison to his intestines, and
consequently the former requires to be
constantly supplied with food in order
to afford aliment to the latter, for which
reason horse cannot with impunity
be kept any length of time without
provender of some kind. Most young
horses masticate whole grain sufficiently
well to insure its complete insalivation,
and therefore it is in a fit state to be
acted upon by the stomach and have its
nutritive qualities all extracted; but
older horses fed on whole grain are apt
to 60 bolt their OATS" and therefore re-
quire chopped feed, the whole secret of
the matter being in the more complete
mastication and insalivation, and con-
sequent digestion of the food. If oats
or corn escape whole in the droppings,
common sense would dictate the ad-
vantage of grinding the food. When
nature fails in the operation she must
be supplemented by art and the mill
stones brought to the assistance of the
horses grinders.-Baltimor San.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

you want to keep your mare thriving
all the time, then your colt will be
strong and healthy when it comes; and
If your mare is good mixer they will
do very well for three months or so,
but when pasture begins to dry up
in the fall l would put up box in the
field where the mare and colt could eat
together, and feed couple of quarts
of oats and shorts mixed, the oats to be
ground, and all wet with little water.
My object in recommending this course
is to keep the colt growing without any
check until he is past three years old,
and another benefit will be in learning
your colt to eat grain with the mare.
You will have no trouble in weaving
your colt when you want to take it
away from the mare. p. Termination.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Care of Brood Mares.

Now comes the care of the future
colt. If you have got your mare in foal
you want to commence feeding her as
soon as you take her up in the fall for
the benefit of her coming colt. 1t is i'm
material whether she runs in boX-stall
with a yard attached (Which is the BEST
or is kept in stall and worked, or is
driven two or three times a week, which
would be nearly as good. My rule is
to feed two or three quarts of oats and
one quart of shorts dry at feed twice
day, which is the best ration for the
feed of the coming colt. The fact is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

Granular, in brine-First, j. Francis GULL
yer, Andover, Mass; second, g. & II. b.
Cromwell, Garretson's, N. Y; third, Mrs
S. p. T. Willetts.
The prizes for cheese were awarded
to V. w. Schooley, Warwick, N. Y,
who had no competitor. 1t is no small
compliment to New England that the
first prize for the best butter in the
show dairy, creamery or factory was
secured by the Green Mountain Stock
Farm, West Randolph, Vt. All the
prizes on creamery were also taken
here.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
The New York Dairy Show.

The great dairy show at the Madison
Square Garden, May 10th to 14th, was
large one and well attended, as
many as forty thousand people visit
ing it. 1t was emphatically fanciers'
show, and the best-known names of
breeders in the various classes of cattle
appear among the exhibitors. The
show of butter is reported as very linn
tied, and our report mentions cheese as
having no competition. The manage
ment was excellent under the direction
of Mr.. Burnett. Vermont should feel
pretty well satisfied with the prizes
gained for her by the Randolph herd
and dairy. All told, there were four
hundred eighty-three head of cattle on
exhibition, and these included only
what are termed the dairy breeds-H OIL
stems, Guernseys, Jerseys and Ayr
shires. The herd prize in Ayrshires
went to Obadiah Brown, Provide nee,
r. l.; in Guernseys, to Francis Shaw,
New Braintree, Mass; in Jerseys, to
the Green Mountain Stock Farm, West
Randolph, Vt; in Holstein-F riesian S,
to F. G. Stevens, Attica, N. Y. The
following prizes were awarded:
SWEEPSTAKES.
Cow of any breed, producing largest guam
tity of milk during twenty-four consecu-
tive hours of the exhibition First, Smiths,
Powell & Lamb, LADY Fay" sixty-fve
pounds and thirteen and one-half ounces
second, to her, f. q. Stevens, "Mecht-
childe," siXty-four pounds and fifteen and
one-half ounces; third, Smiths, Powell &
Lamb, "Clothilde, sixty three pounds and
one and one-half ounces. All Holsteins.
Cow of any breed producing largest guam
tity of butter during tweLty-four consecu-
tive hours of the exhibtion-Smiths,
Powell & Lamb, "Clothilde," Holstein,
twopounds and seven and one-half ounces
second, to her, Clothilde 4th," also Hol-
stein, same owners, two pounds and one
fourth ounce. Seven Jerseys, six Hol-
stems and two Guernseys in competition.
BUTTER.
Dairy creamery or factory First, Green
Mountain Stock Farm Company, West
Randolph, Vt; second, w. ID. Stowe,
Waterloo, Wis. third, Windsor (Ct.)
Creamery Company.
Creamery or factory First, g. II. Water
house, Short FILLS, N. H.; second, Am
herst (Mass.) Creamery Company; third
Westboro (Mass) Creamery Company.
Farm or Dairy-First, Green Mountain
Stock Farm Company second, f. c.
Stevens; third, l.. p. Bailey, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio.
Package for delivery unbroken to con-
sumer-First, f. G. Stevens second
Lawrence Creamery, Groton, Mass. third
j. A. Kline, North Egremont, Mass.
Prints, moulds or rolls, creamery or fac
tory-First, Ellington Creamery, Melrose
Ct; second, G. III. Waterhouse third
Windsor (Ct.) Creamery.
Prints, moulds or rolls, farm or dairy First
Mrs. w. A. Sudduth, Flemingsburg, Ky.
second, Valley View Farm, BallstoI
Springs, N. Y; third, Houghton Farm
Mountainville, N. Y.
CONTINUED IN FIFTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

We wish we could tell you what
would cure the trouble you speak of.
The symptoms point to the disease
shown by very small worms in the air
passages of the head and throat, and
what will destroy them and not kill the
chickens we do not know. We have
tried several things-but the chicks
died, all the same. If some of our
readers who make poultry specially
can give Mr.. Emery any information
they will confer a favor on him and us,
and also upon many others.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
advertisements.
RUBY PILLS

They will not only relieve, but will positiyely
cure, Consultation.
They never disturb the stomach, never leave the
bowels constipated, and are especially valuable for
children and nvalids.
Constipation when neglected soon produces dys.
pepsa biliousness, headache languor and dizziness,
symptoms which promptly disappear after the
proper use of these pills
Any persons who have used the Ruby Pills without
obtaining the desired result will confer favor on
the company and receive without cost to them
selves) directions for their special case by describing
their symptoms (enclosng stamp to Ruby Pill Co.,
Eliot, Maine.
The travelling public is better pleased with this pill
than with any other. Price twenty-five cents per
bottle For sale by all druggists and by the trade
generally.
GEO. G. GOODWIN q CO.,
Boston, Mass, General Agents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
What will Cure the Chickens ?

Mr.. Edttor The great trouble in raising
chickens, especially early ones, in this sec.
ton seems to be disease commencing with
sneezing and loose rattle in the nose, with
hard breathing, until they will stretch up
their necks, gasp for every breath, refuse
to eat, stand with their eyes shut and gasr
until they wear out. What will cure it?
w. ii. EMERY, Chelsea. VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
advertisements.
100 Doses

One Dollar. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only
medicine of which this can be truly said;
and il is an unanswerable argument as to
the strength and positive economy Of this
great medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla is made
OF roots, herbs, barks, ETC., long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood |;
and in combination, proportion, and process,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar to Itself.
FOR economy and comfort we use Hoods
Sarsaparila." Mrs. c. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
floods Sarsaparilla takes less time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
preparation ever heard Of l would not be
without 1t in the house." MRS. C. A. M.
HUBBARD, North Chill. N. Y. 100 Doses